What is AI Cam and how is it different from normal CCTV?

AI Cam is an AI-powered smart surveillance platform. Traditional CCTV simply records — you only find out about an incident when you review the tape afterwards. AI Cam adds intelligence: your cameras are watched in real time, real threats are picked out and independently checked, and each one is written up with a threat level. You get a rich visual alert the moment something matters, instead of hours of footage nobody is watching.

Do I need to replace my existing cameras?

No. AI Cam works with the standard HD and IP cameras you already own — anything that provides an RTSP stream. Even if your cameras all run through a DVR or NVR recorder box, nothing gets rewired: the recorder keeps recording and showing on your TV, and AI Cam reads the channels you choose over your own network. You add one small local AI device (a mini-PC or Raspberry Pi class box) per site, and it does the detection. There is no rip-and-replace and no proprietary camera to buy.

How does it avoid false alarms?

Raw motion is never enough to alert you on its own — it has to be a real detection first, and you can draw detection zones so streets, skies and corridors are ignored entirely. Every event that gets through is then independently checked, given a threat level, and false positives are suppressed. Cooldown windows on alert rules then make sure the same event never spams you.

What events can it detect?

Detection covers people, vehicles, fire and smoke, intrusion, general motion and loitering. Events are then classified across sixteen types, which also include falls, crowds, zone breaches, packages, animals, weapons, bags, phones and screens. Beyond any fixed list, the AI Watchman judges the scene itself — so a danger nobody wrote a rule for is still reported. Each camera can have its own detection zones and its own detection on/off toggle, so coverage is tuned exactly to each location.

What is the AI Watchman?

An alert rule answers a fixed question: is there a person, a vehicle, a fire? The AI Watchman asks an open one — is anything here wrong? It watches the way a night guard would and reports what it finds, including dangers nobody configured a rule for: someone who has fallen and is not moving, a fight, a weapon, a snake in the yard, a child alone near water, smoke already filling a room. You can give it standing instructions in plain English, such as "watch the kids near the pool" — those are duties added to its watch, never a filter on what else it may report. Findings are rated from low to critical and you set the level that reaches you, with a daily limit and a cooldown you choose so the cost stays predictable.

How will I be alerted?

Alerts arrive by email and push notification with an event thumbnail and an AI-written description. You build alert rules around event type, priority, device, camera and schedule — including business-hours awareness — and the dashboard also gives immediate in-browser audio-visual warnings for critical events.

Can I monitor multiple locations at once?

Yes. Whether you have two offices or fifty warehouses, multiple local AI devices report into one unified cloud dashboard. Device heartbeat monitoring shows you online / offline status across every site in real time.

How is my privacy and data protected?

Each company gets a completely isolated database — your events and clips are fully separated from every other customer. Your raw footage stays on your own premises and is never uploaded. Device communication is encrypted and authenticated over HTTPS, all data and credentials are encrypted at rest with AES-256, and every action is recorded in an audit trail.

Who on my team can access the system?

Access is role-based. Admins have full control of devices, cameras, alerts, settings, API keys and users. Operators manage devices, cameras and alerts and view events, but cannot touch settings or keys. Viewers get read-only access to the dashboard and events.

Can I tell it to watch only part of the camera view?

Yes. Draw a detection zone directly on your camera's own view and only what happens inside it counts. You can also draw ignore-zones over a public road, a neighbour's gate or a busy pavement. A person is judged by where their feet are, so someone walking behind a boundary wall does not trigger a zone in front of it. Zones are applied on the device itself, so anything filtered out never becomes an event, an alert or an AI cost.

Does it recognise faces, and where are the photos stored?

Yes — and it is included on every plan, including the free one. You enrol the people you know (staff, family, regular contractors) and can keep a separate watchlist. Matching happens ON the local device: enrolment photos and face data never leave your premises, and only the result (known, watchlisted or unrecognised) reaches the dashboard. You can then create rules that alert only for strangers, or the instant a watchlisted person appears. The matched name shows on the event and in the alert email. We do not charge for this because it runs on your hardware, not ours.

Can I stop it alerting me during working hours?

Yes. Every alert rule can carry its own time window — pick the days and the from/to times, and the rule stays silent outside them. Windows can run overnight (for example 18:00 to 06:00), and they are evaluated in your own company timezone, not ours. A typical setup is one quiet daytime rule and a strict after-hours rule on the same cameras.

What happens if the internet goes down?

Detection and recording are local, so they keep running with no internet at all. Events detected during an outage are queued on the device and delivered automatically once the connection returns, so nothing is silently lost. Recording continues throughout, and your footage never leaves your premises.

How is AI Cam priced?

Start free with one camera and 10,000 AI credits — no card, no trial clock. From there you pay for two things only: capacity, and services that cost us money per use. Extra cameras are $3/month each and extra devices $5/month, so you add exactly what you have. Live video streaming and off-site cloud clip storage are optional add-ons, priced because each carries a real per-gigabyte cost. AI verification is paid from a credit balance — every account gets 10,000 welcome credits once, and Professional adds 1,000 every month. Need more than that, top-ups start at $20 for 2,500 credits — bought once, never expiring, and they roll over month to month.

What is actually free, and what is the catch?

The free plan covers one camera on one local device, with AI detection, detection zones, face recognition and watchlist, alert scheduling, email and push notification alerts, your own isolated database, 7 days of event history and 10,000 AI verification credits usable for 30 days. After that the credits are held rather than lost — subscribe whenever you like and they come back, added to your plan's own credits. The limits are the honest part: one camera and 7-day history are enough to prove the product on a real door, and a site that needs more cameras or longer history is a site worth paying for.

How do AI credits work?

One credit covers one AI check. Detection itself is free and unlimited, so credits are only spent when an event is written up and given a threat level. Every account gets 10,000 welcome credits once — at signup on the free plan, or when you subscribe if you skip the free plan entirely. On the free plan they are usable for 30 days; after that they are held on your account rather than lost, and subscribing returns them on top of the 1,000 credits Professional includes every month. Top-ups start at $20 for 2,500 credits and go up to $175 for 40,000 — each one is a single purchase, not a subscription, and the credits never expire. If you run out, detection, alerts and recording all keep working exactly as before — you simply stop getting the AI-written description until your credits are replenished.

Do I get my own database?

Yes, on every plan including the free one. Each company is provisioned its own isolated database — your events, images and enrolled faces are physically separate from every other customer, not rows in a shared table. We do not charge extra for it because we would have to build it that way regardless; data separation is not a feature to upsell.

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AI Cam - Smart Surveillance

Name: AI Cam - Smart Surveillance
Brand: IO Snack
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Author: IO Snack

Dedicated Database

Your AI Watchman. Never Blinks. Never Sleeps.

Your cameras record everything and tell you nothing. Footage only gets reviewed after something has already gone wrong. AI Cam watches it live instead — it judges every scene the way a guard would and messages you the moment something matters, on the cameras you already own.

Start free on one camera — no card, no trial clock
Works with the HD and IP cameras you already own — nothing to rip out
The AI Watchman judges the whole scene — including what no alert rule covers: a fall, a fight, a weapon, smoke
Every alert is checked before it reaches you, and arrives with the photo attached
Your footage never leaves the building — recorded and stored on your own premises

Free Forever

$0 / month

Paid plans from $12/mo — upgrade anytime

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No Credit Card | Free Forever — No Expiry | Upgrade Anytime

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AI Cam spotting hazards live — an unattended child in a classroom, an intruder on a thermal perimeter camera, a worker with no helmet on a factory floor

Event Types Classified

24/7

AI Watchman On Duty

Multi

Layer AI Verification

100%

Events Logged & Audited

Quick & Easy

Get Started in 3 Simple Steps

No technical knowledge needed. If you can use a phone, you can use IO Snack AI Cam - Smart Surveillance.

Nothing Goes Unwatched

Your cameras connect to a small device on site and are watched from that moment on — people, vehicles, fire, intrusion, loitering. The AI Watchman keeps its own watch on the whole scene as well, so a hazard that matches no rule is still caught. Your video stays on your premises.

You Are Told What Actually Happened

Before anything reaches you it is written up in plain English and given a threat level from Critical to Routine, with false alarms filtered out. Built for reliability, so it keeps working without interruption.

You Get the Alert That Matters

Alert rules match each event against type, priority, camera, device and schedule. A rich visual alert reaches you by email and push notification — with cooldown windows so you are informed, never spammed.

See It in Action

Screenshots & Preview

Here's what you'll get — a clean, intuitive interface designed for speed.

AI Cam Dashboard - live event stream and device health

Centralized Monitoring Hub

Live event stream with visual evidence and confidence scores
At-a-glance counts: devices online, cameras active, events today
"Needs Attention" and critical-alert tiles surface real priorities
Real-time health monitoring of every connected device

AI Cam Events - searchable event log with thumbnails

Event Log — Every Incident, Captured

Thumbnail evidence and clip reference for every detected event
AI-written description and threat classification per event
Filter by device, camera, event type, priority and date
Mark false positives — feedback that sharpens future detection

AI Cam Alert Rules - configurable notification rules

Alert Rules — You Decide What Reaches You

Rules by event type, priority, device, camera and schedule
Cooldown windows stop the same alert from spamming you
Choose channels per rule — email, push notification or browser alert
Business-hours awareness — different rules day vs night

AI Cam Devices - local AI device management

Device Management — Health at a Glance

Register and monitor local AI devices across every site
Heartbeat tracking — online / offline status in real time
Secure device-to-cloud communication via API keys
Automatic offline detection flags dropped devices instantly

AI Cam Cameras - per-camera configuration and zones

Camera Management & Detection Zones

Configure each camera under its local AI device
Toggle detection per camera — pause without unplugging
Draw detection zones to focus AI on what matters
Zone targeting cuts noise from streets, skies and corridors

AI Cam Analytics - trends, accuracy and breakdowns

Analytics — Turn Events Into Insight

Totals: events, critical events, false positives, alerts sent
Priority breakdown and events-by-type distribution
Detection accuracy and alerts-per-event ratio metrics
Daily breakdown charts to spot patterns over time

AI Cam Settings - AI configuration, users and access keys

Settings — AI, Users & Access Keys

Enterprise AI verification with built-in redundancy for maximum uptime
Admin, Operator and Viewer roles with scoped permissions
All data and credentials encrypted at rest — AES-256
Activity log and audit trail of every configuration change

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Your AI Watchman, in 53 seconds

Ordinary cameras record. Watch what happens when one of them starts paying attention — a child climbing where he shouldn't, a fall nobody saw, an intruder at midnight, a helmet that isn't on.

Everything You Need

Complete Feature List

Every feature built to help your business run faster and smarter.

Intelligent Detection, Not Motion Alerts

Instant — you are told while it is happening, not after
Detects people, vehicles, fire, smoke, intrusion, motion and loitering
Customizable detection zones focus AI on high-risk areas
Per-camera detection toggle — pause coverage without unplugging
Works with standard high-definition IP cameras you already own
Private by design — your footage is never uploaded anywhere

AI Watchman — Judgment, Not Just Detection

An always-on second pair of eyes that watches the whole scene, not one thing at a time
Sees what no alert rule covers — fire, smoke, a weapon, a fall, a snake, a fight
Open-ended by design: it reports any danger it sees, including things nobody asked it to watch for
Give it standing instructions in plain English — "watch the kids near the pool"
Your instructions add duties to its watch; they never limit what else it may report
Findings rated low, medium, high or critical — you set the level that reaches you
Watch on movement, on a timer, or both — so a hazard that is perfectly still is still found
Daily limit and per-camera cooldown you control, so cost and 3am noise stay predictable
Watchman Log records every scan including the quiet ones — proof it is genuinely watching

Verified Before It Reaches You — Pay Only For What Runs

Every event is independently checked before it becomes an alert
Human-readable incident descriptions written automatically
Threat-level classification — Critical, High, Medium, Routine
Intelligent false-positive suppression cuts the noise
One credit per AI check — a quiet site costs almost nothing
Monthly credits on every plan, top up any amount on top
Runs out? Detection, alerts and recording all carry on regardless
Resilient by design — no single point of failure, analysis never stops

Detection Zones — Watch Only What Matters

Draw the exact area to watch directly on your camera's own view
Ignore-zones for public roads, neighbouring gates and busy pavements
Judged by where a person's feet are, so a passer-by behind a wall is not an alert
Enforced on the device — filtered detections cost you no alert and no AI usage
Multiple zones per camera, each switched on or off independently
Resolution-independent: change the camera and your zones still fit

Face Recognition & Watchlist — Included

Included on every plan, including the free one
Enrol the people you know — staff, family, regular contractors
Build a watchlist and be told the moment that person appears
Faces are matched ON the device; enrolment photos never leave your premises
Alerts that fire only for strangers, ignoring everyone you have enrolled
The person's name appears on the event and inside the alert email
Known / Watchlist / Unrecognised shown at a glance in the event log

Actionable Alerts

Rich visual alerts by email and mobile push notification
Time windows per rule — quiet during business hours, alert overnight
Plain-English AI rules like "only if two or more people are visible"
Smart anti-spam cooldown — never flooded by the same alert
Rules by event type, priority, device, camera, person and schedule
Every notification logged with sent / failed delivery status

Device & Camera Management

Register and manage local AI devices across every location
Real-time heartbeat tracking — online / offline at a glance
Automatic health checks flag dropped devices the moment they go down
Configure unlimited cameras per device with individual settings
Secure device-to-cloud connections with built-in abuse protection
Zero-setup — the module configures itself automatically on first use

Analytics & Reporting

Activity pattern grid — every day against every hour, in your own timezone
Position heatmap showing where people actually appear in frame
Dwell time — typical, average and longest visit, timed per arrival
Busiest-camera ranking and people counting by arrival, not by frame
Event totals, priority mix, false-positive rate and alerts sent
Daily trend charts across 7 to 90 days, with CSV export

Security, Roles & Privacy

Your own isolated database on every plan — never an upsell
Your events, images and enrolled faces are physically separate from every other customer
Admin, Operator and Viewer roles with permission-based access
All data and credentials encrypted at rest with AES-256
Encrypted, authenticated device communication — HTTPS only
Complete activity log and audit trail of every action
Configurable event retention with automated cleanup

Built for Your Industry

Who Is This For?

One AI Cam - Smart Surveillance, multiple industries — with features tailored to each.

Homes & Residential

Turn the cameras you already own into a watchful AI guard. Get a push notification with a photo the moment a person or vehicle enters your property — and nothing when it is just a passing cat.

Houses apartments gated villas private compounds holiday homes

Offices & Commercial Buildings

Monitor entrances, lobbies and restricted areas with detection zones and business-hours alert rules. Operators watch live events while admins control settings and configuration.

Corporate offices retail stores clinics banks co-working spaces

Warehouses & Industrial Sites

Cover large perimeters with multiple local AI devices on one dashboard. Fire and smoke detection plus intrusion alerts protect high-value inventory around the clock.

Warehouses factories logistics yards cold storage plant rooms

Builders & Multi-Site Operators

Secure active construction sites and manage every location from a single unified hub. Loitering and intrusion detection guard equipment after hours, with role-based access for site teams.

Construction sites property developers facility managers security firms

Retail & Showrooms

Know when someone enters after closing, and keep the shop floor free of false alarms during trading hours. Zone off the till area and the stockroom door, and put staff on the known list so only unfamiliar faces raise a flag.

Shops showrooms pharmacies petrol stations restaurants salons

Schools, Clinics & Care

Watch entrances and restricted corridors without watching the people you already trust. Enrolled staff pass unnoticed while an unrecognised face at a side door raises an immediate alert with a photo.

Schools nurseries clinics care homes laboratories pharmacies

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Why Surveillance Is Moving From Recording to Knowing

See exactly what changes the day you switch — issue by issue.

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Your CCTV Today

With IO Snack AI Cam

Hours of footage recorded — but nobody watching in real time

Watched in real time, with real events flagged the moment they happen

It only ever finds what someone thought to set up in advance

AI Watchman watches the whole scene and reports dangers nobody configured

A fall, a fight or a snake in the yard sets off nothing at all

Watched the way a guard would watch — tell it your rules, or let it decide

You discover the break-in next morning, scrubbing through tape

Rich push notification the moment intrusion is detected

Motion alerts fire for every cat, branch, shadow and headlight

Dual-layer AI verification suppresses false positives

No idea a camera went offline until you actually need the clip

Device heartbeat monitoring — instant offline detection

Critical fire and smoke events buried among routine motion

AI threat classification ranks Critical above Routine

Every site has its own DVR box and its own separate login

One cloud dashboard unifies every site, device and camera

Reviewing an incident means scrubbing hours of raw footage

Every event logged with thumbnail, AI description and clip

Going "AI CCTV" means ripping out and replacing every camera

Works with the standard HD / IP cameras you already have

Everyone shares one admin login to the whole camera system

Admin / Operator / Viewer roles with scoped permissions

Footage sits on a box anyone on-site can unplug and walk off

Events and clips stored in an isolated per-company database

Same cameras. Real intelligence. Stop recording — start knowing.

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4 Portals Patient · Doctor · Donor · Admin 3 Modes Video · Phone · In-Person End-to-End Booking to Payout

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Transport & Fleet Operations

19 Integrated Modules Booking→Ledger Fully Connected AI-Native Audits & Q&A

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Plans

Start Free. Grow When You Need To.

No card, no trial clock. Move up only when your site outgrows the free plan.

Free

One camera, watched by AI, at no cost

Free

Forever — not a trial

1 camera on 1 local device
On-device AI detection — people, vehicles, fire, intrusion
Detection zones — watch the driveway, ignore the road
Face recognition and watchlist, matched on your device
Email and push notifications with the photo
Alert scheduling in your own timezone
10,000 AI verification credits — usable for 30 days, then held for you
Your own isolated database
7-day event history

Start Free

Professional

For a site you actually rely on

$12 /month

or $120/year

4 cameras across 2 local devices
Everything in Free, plus:
Cloud clip storage — footage survives a stolen device
10,000 welcome credits, once — plus 1,000 every month
Top up any time — from $20 for 2,500 credits, which never expire
30-day event history
Add more cameras any time, $3 each

Get Professional

Enterprise

Multi-site, high camera count, your terms

Custom

Priced per deployment

Unlimited cameras and devices
Everything in Professional, plus:
Live video streaming from every camera
Custom event retention
Volume credit pricing
Onboarding and installation support
Priority support with a named contact

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Every plan includes your own private database, role-based access and a full audit trail.

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Pick the add-ons you need and see your total in real-time. No sign-up required.

AI Cam - Smart Surveillance — Free Included

Free

Prices below are on top of the Free plan. Higher plans already include some of these.

1 camera on 1 local device
On-device AI detection — people, vehicles, fire, intrusion
Detection zones — watch the driveway, ignore the road
Face recognition and watchlist, matched on your device
Email and push notifications with the photo
Alert scheduling in your own timezone
10,000 AI verification credits — usable for 30 days, then held for you
Your own isolated database
7-day event history

Optional Add-ons

Click to add or remove. Total updates instantly.

Additional Camera

+$3 /mo

Add one more camera to your account. Buy as many as you have cameras — a single local device can watch several at once, so extra cameras usually need no extra hardware.

Cloud Clip Storage

+$4 /mo

Upload event clips and thumbnails to cloud storage for remote viewing. Includes 10GB storage with 90-day retention.

Additional Device

+$5 /mo

Add one more local AI device. Only needed for a separate site or when your cameras are too far apart for one device to reach.

Live Video Streaming

+$10 /mo

Watch your cameras live from anywhere, on demand. Turn any camera's live feed on or off right from your dashboard — view securely on desktop or mobile, with no extra apps to install.

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